Raising Ourselves: A Gwich'in Coming of Age Story from the Yukon River

Raising Ourselves

A Gwich'in Coming of Age Story from the Yukon River

2002 • 212 pages

Born in 1960, the sixth of thirteen children, Velma Wallis comes of age in a two-room log cabin in remote Fort Yukon, Alaska. Raising Ourselves is an irresistible story of growing up Gwich'in. It is gritty and sobering yet filled with laughter even a to present. But hope pushes back hopelessness, and a new strength and wisdom emerge.

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